Comments on: Those in power flex their muscles against the Freedom Convoy

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 18:08:03 +0000

PA+cat
Windsor to Sarnia is about an hour and a half, presuming no unusual traffic. That will give you an idea of how far out of the way you’d be if your desired crossing were the Ambassador Bridge.

There’s a tunnel under the river. Not sure why the cops didn’t mention that except clearing it if blocked would be a huge logistical issue. Were it me, I’d close it off–from the outside, both ends.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 16:19:31 +0000

“…Jordan Peterson…”
A bit disappointing here, though:
‘He said the [CBC] should no longer receive any public funding due to its “appallingly corrupt” practices.’
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2022/02/08/jordan-peterson-blasts-cbc-as-appallingly-corrupt-ideologically-warped/

Um, Dr. Peterson, HELLO!! That’s PRECISELY THE REASON why they’re getting so much public funding. That, and because without public—i.e., Government of Canada—funding, they wouldn’t be able to hold their heads above water.
(This is why “Biden”‘s “infrastructure” bamboozlement includes a hefty payment to support the Corrupt Media in the US….)

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:19:47 +0000

As systems (like societies) grow in size, they run into the problem that people rise to or sustain elite status within the system NOT by merit or genuine achievement but by becoming really good at manipulating the system itself. The result is you get people in charge who are fairly good at maintaining the status quo but are spectacularly incapable of handling any external challenge to or internal breakdown of the system.

Essentially, you get leaders who are actually WORSE at dealing with a crisis than some random shlub picked off the street would be.

Bingo.

By: zenman

zenman — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:50:29 +0000

Secessio plebis

GENERAL STRIKE

SOLIDARITY

This is the way…

A BIG BUT HERE:

We all must be prepared for the consequences in many different ways. Got a minimum 4 weeks of food/water/supplies. Can you weather the weather, not being able to go out buy things or have things delivered.

How are you prepared to support a general strike? Food, water, fuel, shelter, medical, morale, protesting, counter-protesting, organizing.

And what if you support a popular movement that then fails…

By: Aggie

Aggie — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 04:39:03 +0000

Thanks @Andy!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 04:20:55 +0000

Aggie,

There almost no chance of a ‘No Confidence’ motion passing. There are 338 seats in the House of Commons and Liberals hold 169 and NDP, who are left of Liberals, holding 25. Those two parties combined have enough seats to ensure that the motion won’t pass. Plus, nobody wants to campaign in the winter.

Liberal party is one of the most successful parties when compared to other democracies based on the amount of time they have governed. That is just how Canada is and in my opinion it is not approaching anything close to Rubicon. This typifies the Canadian mentality: https://www.cbc.ca/archives/just-watch-me-when-pierre-trudeau-confronted-the-october-crisis-1.4676740

By: PA+Cat

PA+Cat — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 03:52:31 +0000

The freedom protesters have closed the bridge that joins Detroit and Windsor, Ontario:
“The Ambassador Bridge land border crossing that connects Windsor, Ont., and Detroit is ‘not accessible,’ police say, as protesters demonstrating in solidarity with the ongoing anti-mandate protests in Ottawa are blocking traffic. In a notice Monday evening, the Ontario Provincial Police’s Essex County detachment said as of approximately 8 p.m., the Ambassador Bridge is ‘not accessible in both directions going into the United States as well as entering into Canada.’ The force said those looking to travel into the United States should utilize the Bluewater Bridge in Sarnia.[…]”

https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/02/07/the-honking-will-continue/

By: Aggie

Aggie — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 03:48:35 +0000

I am ignorant to the ways of Canada’s provincial / parliamentary electoral system. What are the prospects, at this point, of triggering an election? Is it a vote of ‘No Confidence’ or something similar? Is the country approaching this Rubicon?

It would seem the Conservative Opposition bears an unfortunate resemblance to our own RINO culture, even when presented with platinum-plated, diamond encrusted, golden opportunities such as this one. I am amazed at the silence from that quarter, in light of the sheer number of people that have mobilized.

Jordan Peterson gave a great one hour podcast on this subject yesterday, and he characterized Trudeau as an adult teenager, one who felt the need to manufacture two excuses to evade his responsibilities and flee the scene.

That chat is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km5Em_xz8RI

Peterson, like Turley, views the corruption and collusion between GoFu**Me and the Canadian bureaucracy as a very poisonous thing, and an important line that has been crossed.

By: M J R

M J R — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 03:43:58 +0000

. . . which unavoidably leads this reader (me) to the William F. Buckley, Jr. quote:

“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.”

— WFB Jr. in an interview with Esquire, January 1961

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/31/telegovern/

The more popular version, however, is:

“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.”

(as paraphrased in the New York Times)

By: MBunge

MBunge — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 02:52:02 +0000

Essentially, you get leaders who are actually WORSE at dealing with a crisis than some random shlub picked off the street would be.

Mike